Standing next to his team’s car before Thursday’s qualifying race at Daytona International Speedway, Dale Earnhardt Jr. looked at his sister, Kelley Earnhardt Miller, in amazement. “God dang,” he said to her before the invocation,

Dale Earnhardt Sr. died while racing on the last lap of the Daytona 500. His son, Dale Earnhardt Jr. continues to return to the track. Since his dad’s death, Junior has won two Daytona 500s of his own and has now qualified for the first time as a NASCAR Cup Series team owner.